Indian Firms Invest in Iranian Oil
India’s Economic Times recently reported that a consortium of public sector oil companies — ONGC Videsh (OVL), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Oil India (OIL) —  has proposed [...]
Into Africa … (2)
While frontier markets in Africa are not yet the new Brazil, let alone the new South Korea, there are ample reasons to be optimistic about the economic resurgence in many African countries.  As [...]
A Knot of Pipeline Projects/Proposals: The Caspian Conundrum
Via Radio Free Europe, an insightful look at the multitude of Caspian pipeline projects that leaders of the Caspian Sea littoral states — Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran [...]
Azeri Aim To Become Gas Transit Route
As recently reported in The Financial Times, Azerbaijan – already a growing force on world oil markets – is carving a role for itself both as a natural gas exporter and as a strategic gas [...]
Central Asia’s Great (Oil and Gas) Game
Via The Geotimes, an interesting look at the machinations around Central Asian hydrocarbon resources.  As the article notes: “…Today for Central Asiatic countries of the Caspian [...]
The Future of Petronas: Pemex or Petrobras?
As reported by Stratfor (subscription required), Malaysia’s energy giant Petronas could go broke within a decade if the government takes all of its profits under a new tax scheme, the [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.